Yearly Archives: 2017

Speech on Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 16/11/2017 We don’t often enough acknowledge, in this place, in our country, that we live in extraordinarily fortunate times. We are fortunate to live in 2017 in Australia. We enjoy, as a people, overwhelmingly, standards of living that those who went before us could never…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide, Breakfast with Ali Clarke and David Bevan Topics: Same-sex marriage; Coal-fired power 15/11/2017 09:05AM David Bevan: A big ABC radio Adelaide welcome to Simon Birmingham, Liberal Senator for South Australia and Education Minister on the phone line, good morning Simon Birmingham. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, top of the…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Speech to China Advanced Leadership Program, Canberra 15/11/2017 Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much, Professor Ken Smith, for that welcome, and it is a delight to be back here once again supporting this very prestigious event and to be doing so with so many wonderful talented faces across our governments in the room…

New Federal Government data shows student dropout rates are still among the highest in a decade despite dipping slightly since 2014. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the latest Higher Education Student Data revealed a 14.97 per cent attrition rate for the 2015 cohort compared to 12.29 per cent in 2009. “Australia’s universities…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News Live with Ashleigh Gillon Topics: Citizenship of Parliamentarians; Same-sex marriage; Latest Newspoll 14/11/17 10:13am Ashleigh Gillon: Let’s take you back live to Canberra now, joining us from there is the Education Minister, Simon Birmingham. Minister, appreciate your time. We’ll get to same-sex marriage in a moment. First though, your…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio National Drive with Patricia Karvelas Topics: Citizenship of Parliamentarians; Same-sex marriage 13/11/17 06:10PM Patricia Karvelas: Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education, welcome back to RN Drive Simon Birmingham: G’day Patricia, nice to be with you. Patricia Karvelas: So how many MPs are you preparing to potentially lose, have you clearly…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Doorstop interview, Canberra Topics: Latest Newspoll; Citizenship of Parliamentarians 13/11/2017 7:30AM Journalist: Happy with the results of the Newspoll? Simon Birmingham: Well the Turnbull Government is determined that despite the fact that the commentary around citizenship sucks much of the oxygen out of the news coverage at present, that we’re going to keep…

E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Channel 9 Weekend Today with Jayne Azzopardi Topics: New child care package; Citizenship of Parliamentarians 12/11/2017 08:08AM Jayne Azzopardi: Ask any working parent and they will tell you there is a child care crisis in this country. But this morning the Federal Government is beginning its sales pitch, promising relief is…

New analysis has revealed the areas around the country where Australian families are set to be the biggest winners from the Turnbull Government’s child care overhaul. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the child care overhaul will provide the greatest hours of support to the families who work the longest hours, and the…